Finding x

Two children are now SATs free. This is for them.

Now playing Robert Plant/Alison Krauss – Please Read The Letter

Greenbelt downsized

Only about four months to Greenbelt. Have to make do with the model for now created by Bruce Stanley on his tasty made over Embody site (with added “Aha!”). Good to see the Tiny Tea Tent made even tinier.

Design police

Handy in all sorts of ways.

Big cheer to JB

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Now playing: Nick Drake – Northern Sky
via FoxyTunes

Lego

It’s the 50th birthday of the Lego brick. I’d read somewhere that originally Lego did not make green or brown bricks so that no-one used the bricks for tanks or war toys. Now that weaponry’s more sophisticated there are a good number of Star Wars, Batman or alien battles to be had – ‘though still no tanks.

Batman doesn’t make it to the Brick Testament (unless there’s a reference in The Boy’s Bible with its strapline, ‘Finally a Bible just for boys’) but there are a few jokes.

We looked at Mark 10 on Sunday which included the camel and eye of the needle trick. The answer to the camel and needle seems to be either to grease the camel and invest in a large liquidiser and a big syringe – or when that doesn’t work, go, sell, give to the poor and follow the Rabbi Jesus.

I had 31 verses to get through on Sunday so it was definitely a case of less is more. I remembered afterwards that there was a good camel-
shoving quote from Richard Branson in 1994 when he was asked why he wanted to run the lottery franchise for charity and not for profit and he said:

Well, I hope to make the eye of the needle a little bit larger when I come to the end of my days.

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Now playing: Pete Seeger – Little Boxes
via FoxyTunes

uʍop ǝpısdn pǝuɹnʇ plɹoʍ

lɯʇɥ˙dılɟ\ɯoɔ˙pɐɟʌǝɹ˙ʍʍʍ\\:dʇʇɥ

0 ǝɔuɐʇsqns 1 ǝlʎʇs

˙uɐɔ ı ǝsnɐɔǝq ’sıɥʇ ƃuıop ʎluo ɯ,ı

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Now playing: Bryan Ferry – It’ s All Over Now, Baby Blue
via FoxyTunes

Disapostment

Disapostment noun a feeling of dissatisfaction when expectations of blogs are not realised. Particularly acute after a period absence when returning to favourite blogs and discovering there’s nothing new posted there.

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Now playing: Charlie Parker – Summertime
via FoxyTunes

Big Brother

You can run, but you can’t hide. It’s everywhere, again. Maybe Big Brother could be an alternative summer Lent – not just in avoiding it but doing something positive instead. Lizzie has a list of friendly actions to subvert the BB effect and Ship of Fools 40 ideas for Lent can be adapted to counter the wilderness experience of kamikaze television.

Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Endemol, the company which generously gifts us Big Brother, is the great, great grandson of the Victorian engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette who designed the London sewer system. One Bazalgette pumped crap out of our homes, whilst the other pumps it back in.

Aristotle was a Red

Liverpool in Athens tonight for the European Cup final. Local wit on display at the Liverpool FC site. Aristotle morphs into ‘Carrastotle’ quoting: ‘In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities. ‘

Go the Reds

The Big Hitter

And the Lord shall strike.

Happy to make this a caption contest if the reading several wills it.

Lunar Eclipse

Got trapped by enforced hospitality around MOTD on Saturday and missed the moon going into the red.

So in the style of MOTD, an action reply without Gary Lineker is Jonas Thomén’s Flickr space where you can watch it happen again.